Tecnomen Wins BVI Contract

CCT Boatphone, the exclusive wireless service provider of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, has awarded Tecnomen a contract to deliver and install a complete value added service solution during the last quarter of 2003. Tecnomen will provide CCT Boatphone with such messaging systems as prepaid and voice mail, as well as a Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC), unified messaging service and a WAP gateway. The solution will be taken into commercial deployment in March 2004.

Based in Tortola, the largest of the islands, CCT Boatphone provides on-board wireless services to sailing tourists and island visitors, as well as wireless services to residents and local businesses in the British Virgin Islands.

"Tecnomen's value added service solution is a very powerful tool that provides a flexible and advanced system for offering the services that the market requires and the opportunity to fulfil our customer needs," said Robert Lyons, General Manager, CCT Boatphone. "This is especially important to CCT Boatphone since it will add great value to local BVI residents and to the more than 600,000 tourists that visit the islands annually and account for the majority of our business."

The British Virgin Islands have a population of approximately 20,000 and are a self-governing territory of the United Kingdom. The economy, one of the most stable and prosperous in the Caribbean, is highly dependent on tourism, generating an estimated 45% of the national income. All charter yachts in the British Virgin Islands, 99.9%, are equipped with boat phones."

Posted to the site on 8th October 2003